For someone who is not a professional swimmer, I spend an awful lot of time under water. I consider it an act of mobile meditation: Sensory input is muffled, so the chaos of the surface world ...

First published in the spring of 1994, two months before the birth of Amazon and one month after the death of Kurt Cobain, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott has far outlasted the era of its origin, becoming ...

What if you could improve your mental health without a therapist’s office, prescription medication, or months of commitment? Remarkable research now suggests you can. Scientists analyzed over 17,700 ...

Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Writing can be tough sometimes, right? Like, you have all these ideas bouncing around, but getting them down into a clear paragraph feels like a chore. Or maybe you’re just staring at a blank screen, ...

While fans waited for Chance The Rapper’s new album Star Line, the Chicago native kept his skills sharp with his “Writing Exercise” series of one-off single releases. Tracks like “Wraith,” “A Bar ...

After several years of teaching data analytics, I have come to an agreement that at the end of each academic semester, I will suffer through grading between 20 and 40 group reports. Each report is ...

Middle school teachers can collaborate to develop an engaging project that gives students the opportunity to tap into their creativity. The art of teaching is constantly reinventing itself as we ...